Professor, Department of Computer Science and UMIACS,
University of Maryland

Contact Info:

My office is in Room 4421 of A.V. Williams Building

Surface Mail:

Department of Computer Science

A.V. Williams Building,

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

Phone: (301) 405-0679
Fax: (301) 314-9115

Email: djacobs (at) cs.umd.edu

Research Interests

My research has spanned a range of topics in vision.My primary focus has been on the problem
of recognizing objects in images.My recent work has mainly focused on understanding how to recognize
objects under varying lighting conditions, varying poses, and how to model the
non-rigid deformation of objects and use these models to match images.I have also been interested in a variety
of other problems in vision, including image clustering and structure-from-motion,
and in the intersection between vision and user interfaces and vision and
graphics.Our group is applying
some of this work to building electronic field guides.Our iphone app, Leafsnap has been
downloaded by more than 1,500,000 users.We have also developed Birdsnap and Dogsnap.